Author: Yasmine Ahmed

Yasmine Moataz Ahmed is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the Core Curriculum Office and the anthropology unit of The American University in Cairo (AUC). She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, 2016. Her research investigates the relationship between political change, rural citizens’ mobilization and perceptions of the state and its agents in the aftermath of the January 25th uprisings. She has been an active member of Thimar, a research-activist collective on agriculture, environment and labor in the Arab World. She is currently starting a new research project on sugarcane plantation in Upper Egypt—where she is exploring the relation between labor, markets and the ‘state’. Relevant publications include: The Social Life of Wheat and Grapes: A Story of Domestic Land Grabbing in Rural Egypt, Review of African Political Economy (forthcoming); Review of “Egypt in the Future Tense” by Samuli Schielke, Journal of the Contemporary Levant, Volume 2, 2017, Issue 2, pp. 131-133; “Islah (agrarian reform) from Gift to Right.” In The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic edited by Nicholas Hopkins. Cairo Papers in Social Science, The American University in Cairo Press, Vol. 33, No. 4. 2015; “Al-Fallahun wa Al-Thawra: Istirdad al-Ard.” (in Arabic Peasants and Revolution: Reclaiming the Land) Bidayat, Vol. 6, No. 13, 111-117; “Recording Technologies in Revolutionary Times.” Anthropology News, 2013/02/06/; “Interview with Shahenda Maklad.” Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 38, Issue 127, Pp. 159-167 (co-authored with Reem Saad). Her e-mail is: yasminemoataz@aucegypt.edu